What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
John UpdikeFour years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
John UpdikeI think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page
John UpdikeThe first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
John Updike